The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-05-26
KELLY ON THE SOUTH s.
HE RECORDS HIS OBsERvAPIrsS or 81
PROGRESS IN THISgSECTIOrE. ssSsl5,fa


The Pennsylvania Congressman PredfotsIa
Great Future for Us--He Calls it o dNeyv
South.'
Congressman Kelly, of Pennsylvania,
who has just returned to Washington
from an extended tour through some of
the Southern States, begun last March,
IN an interview with a,Star reporter,
records his observations of progress il.
that section of the country and3predicts
great future for the New Sy6th. Mr..
Kelly said: "In 1873, when visited l,p
Florida, the people there seemed to be
without hope or aspiration, but for theW
last six or seven years the State has
taken position in the first ranks of tho
New South. The people are energetic
and confident of the future. From Kes-
semlnie City and Rock Ledge, I visited
farms on tho lands reclaimed by the
Dralnago Company on native alluvial
helds and after careful inspection, I,sgc
am prepared to say that Florida is
destined to O higher rank among the
agricultural States of the Uuion. The
rich Ill is being intelligently cultivated az. ?,
with great profit When L left Florida
1t was Tor n seasan of rest at Admission,
Ala.,, one of the new cities that has
grown up in the mineral regions. From -;
Admission L made excursions to other
towns IN Alabama and in Georgia. After s
month s stay at Admission, [ turned my
stops toward Tennessee, passed ten days
most pleasantly at South Pittsburg,
which as Admission has just done, will "
soon surprise the country by establish
ing itself as an industrial centre of large -
proportions and great activity. Every
where throughout the mineral regions Of n
the South enterprise and prosperity are 81
moving hand in hand, nor is this pros-
pcrity Of the New South confined to it's 'A''
mineral regions, though the poverty and q
lstless which characterized the DOOR ,-.
people of the old South, still prevail to-
considerable extent, In her cotton y
fields there is large boom of enterprise .,
and lmdrovoment which is rapidly cur.
ing that. Those which have caught the
spirit of progress do not longer plow
their fields with single mule plows.
They have learned the value of deep
piowing and of following the chill ploW %
by heavy subsoil plow. They continue
to grow some cotton, but not open the.
surface of exhausted fields, and thoy
diversity their crops. 1 am speaking
now OF the progressive agriculturists-S e
the representatives of the New South,
uS">' VI OAlo Clop VI COGGOn GQ0y nave
fields of wheat, rye, clover and other,
CROPS. And to save their old time
''Guano" bills, as they call bills for man
uiHctured fertilizers, they turn under
grain crops and aid that with manure
from stock and well fed herds of cattle,
.'The great boom of the South is near
Mt hand, and it will not be confined to
tho mineral regions of that richest sec-
ton of the country, but it will include
tho agricultural regions as WE'LL" ~
In response to questions Judge Kelly
sald that the evidences of progressive
farming were not confined to any State .
OF county, but were visible in places all
ovor the State. In the vicinity of the
rapidly developing mineral regions, he
says, the farms are models Of good man
agemcnt and thrift. Within four miles
OF Admission, Ala, he saw some of the
finest herds of Jersey cattle and one of
the largest and cleanest dairies he had
ever inspected. 1t was built up and ..
owned by native of Alabama Near
Romc, Ca, he saw herds of cattle and
dalrles that would do credit to Pennsyl- "-
vania or New Yolk. =. ,.. p.